Tag: Scaling

Blockchain data platform Streamr has officially released a new open-source ethereum scaling technology called Monoplasma. Inspired by a pre-existing scaling solution called plasma, Monoplasma is different in that it focuses specifically on “one-to-many payments” in which users would need to “repeatedly…

The latest code version for the lightning network – often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments – includes a “block size increase.” One of the most active lightning implementations, LND, pushed out its newest “minor” release, version 0.5.2, of its…

Efforts to scale ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain, are growing more varied as one much-anticipated solution encounters pitfalls amid its continued development. At the forefront of this transition has been plasma, a concept widely heralded as ethereum’s best bet for short-term…

2017 was a wake-up call for bitcoin supporters to say the least. With so many people using the software amid a price boom, the fees for sending transactions swelled higher than ever before, even rising to as much as an…

“Sleep? What’s this word you talk about?” It’s safe to say ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin‘s joke during the first day of EDCON, an ethereum developer conference now taking place in Toronto, had some truth to it, both for himself and…

Imagine having a $100 bill in your pocket. Now, imagine $100 worth of pennies. Notice the difference? Bitcoin isn’t without its irritating kinks, and tiny bitcoin pieces called “dust” are among the lesser-known. As the analogy above shows, the bitcoin protocol…